After studying in a boarding school in the United States, I discovered that my eyes are full of yellow skin. Just like in domestic schools

After studying in a boarding school in the United States, I discovered that my eyes are full of yellow skin. Just like in domestic schools. A parent brought his fifteen-year-old son for an interview in Shanghai. The interviewer was an American high school...

Originally, the TOEFL was only required for many people who came to the United States to attend college and graduate school. If you can score 80 points, you can be admitted to many universities. The threshold for coming to the United States to attend high school has been raised so high and the competition is so strong, which surprises parents who are determined to send their children to elite schools. More and more Chinese high school students are coming to the United States, and the competition is becoming more and more fierce. It seems to be more difficult than applying to college. Giving their children a good start in the United States is what every parent hopes for. Such a cruel and smokeless war is a must for children who want to go to elite schools. Going to elite schools when studying abroad is no easier than the college entrance examination.

The United States is originally fair and implements free public education from preschool to high school graduation. It doesn't matter if the children are from poor families. They go to school for free. Poor students can even apply for free breakfast and lunch to ensure that they can grow up healthily. But this is for local children in the United States. For foreigners who want to come to the United States to study, they absolutely cannot go to public schools. If they want to get a study visa, they must go to private schools. Of course, this is only for grades below high school. If foreign students want to go to university, they can be admitted to any public or private university. American universities all charge fees, and free educational meals only extend to high school education.

Since public schools are free, the existence of private schools is due to the American fear of losing. Public schools vary widely. Although there are excellent public schools in areas with high local taxes, public schools welcome people from all over the country. As long as you live in that area, even if you rent an apartment, you can attend the district school. American parents who have some ideas about their children's education and have sufficient financial strength will send their children to private schools. These are America's elite schools.

There are roughly three types of private schools in the United States: day church schools, non-church day schools and boarding schools. Since public schools are free, it is conceivable that private schools are relatively excellent schools in order to gain a foothold and win students. Because boarding schools have dormitories, they were very popular among Chinese students at the beginning. The first Chinese students to come were usually sent to boarding schools. In the past few years, many boarding schools have been overpopulated with Chinese students, and the campuses are full of yellow-skinned Asian children. Boarding schools have a relatively closed environment, like so-called international schools in China.

After all, boarding school dormitories are limited, so many foreign students are beginning to choose day schools to live in American families and have a purely American life experience. However, it is not so easy to find host families in the United States, which puts many students who choose day schools in a difficult situation.

I have seen some day schools trying to save trouble. In order to recruit Chinese students, they simply outsource the management of the school's Chinese students to an agency. The agency is not unambiguous and rents apartments nearby the school, bringing more than a dozen Chinese students together to truly become a dormitory with Chinese characteristics. I feel sorry for these young international students, who hang out with Chinese children every day and cannot concentrate on studying. I don’t know how these management companies will explain to parents.

It’s just that many parents are thousands of miles away and don’t know what their children have experienced in the United States. I admire these young international students who, at such a young age, have so much courage to start a new chapter in a foreign country during their most rebellious adolescence. High school courses in the United States are not easy for local children, let alone these young international students for whom English is not their native language. I once wrote an article "Studying in a Tiger's Den". I was sad that some children would even face the trouble of going to a pheasant school after coming to the United States. The path to study in a foreign country has become unknown and uncertain.

Choosing an elite school to study in the United States is the wish of many Chinese international students and parents. No matter how fierce the competition is, they have to give it a try. However, the choice is cruel. However, attending an elite school may not necessarily lead to admission to an Ivy League university. A friend's child studied in a public high school in the United States, but she succeeded in climbing the ladder and entered Harvard. Just because she became the best elite team in a not-so-excellent public high school, and her resume was so full that it sounded bluffing.

> A blessing in disguise, a blessing in disguise. The story of my friend’s daughter’s success in climbing the vine to get into Harvard will be explained in detail in another article, “Successful in Climbing the vine.” I hope the parent mentioned above who is worried about whether his child will get into an American high school will get some comfort after reading this.